Last Sunday at church my youth group ran the service! Peter Paul preached, me, Cody Pratorius, Paul Carlson, and James Paul were ushers, Paul Lessner worked the sound booth, Andrew Paul played the trumpet for the closing him, and the all the girls in the youth group who were there led worship while Joshua Lerud played guitar. Other than ushering, I added a bit of comedy to the service. We needed prelude music, music that would play while people came in and found their seats. I volunteered to play the piano for the prelude, which is an inside joke in the youth group.
The piano in our church has the capability to record how a song is played by which keys and pedals are pressed, so that it can play back the song without anyone playing! It’s really cool to watch. So if the Mrs. Lerud can’t make it to church to play the piano, my dad, the sound guy, tells his son, me, to push some buttons on the piano, which plays the songs we need. Some of my friends said that I should pretend to be playing the piano, and that’s what I did last Sunday.
I sat down on the piano bench, pushed some buttons, and began “playing” the piano. I tried to make it look sort of believable, but I simply couldn’t resist playing with one hand while turning the music I was “reading” upside-down. Paul Lessner said that he heard some people saying things like this to each other,
“Is he really playing that?”
“That kid is pretty good.”
One person said to me afterwards that they actually thought I was playing until I flipped the music upside-down. Well, I hope that clears up my unclear status update on Facebook, and as to the youth group, good job! We did a great job, I think God worked through us, and we should do that again! It was fun!